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(New page: {{Client function}} __NOTOC__ This function returns the height of the font currently used in a GUI text label. ==Syntax== <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> number guiLabelGetFontHeight ( element theLabel ) ...)
 
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number guiLabelGetFontHeight ( element theLabel )
float guiLabelGetFontHeight ( element theLabel )
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Revision as of 18:12, 11 April 2008

This function returns the height of the font currently used in a GUI text label.

Syntax

float guiLabelGetFontHeight ( element theLabel )

Required Arguments

  • theLabel: The text label to get the font height from.

Returns

Returns the absolute height of the font currently used in the text label if the function is successful, false otherwise.

Example

This example creates a window, a text label, gets the text extent and font height, and sets the text label size according to these values.

-- create the window (the container for our label)
local myWindow = guiCreateWindow ( 0, 0, 0.5, 0.4, "Information", true )

-- create the label
local myLabel = guiCreateLabel ( 10, 10, 0, 0, "This is my text container", false, myWindow )

-- get the (absolute) text extent and font height, and use these to size the label
guiSetSize ( myLabel, guiLabelGetTextExtent ( myLabel ), guiLabelGetFontHeight ( myLabel ), false )

See Also

General functions

Browsers

Buttons

Checkboxes

Comboboxes

Edit Boxes

Gridlists

Memos

Progressbars

Radio Buttons

Scrollbars

Scrollpanes

Static Images

Tab Panels

Tabs

Text Labels

Windows